I mentioned in yesterday’s Pet Blogger Challenge teaser that I was introducing a new weekly feature. I’ve tried these out before — Friday Focus and Training Tuesday being prime examples — but they’ve always felt a bit artificial. They were more about trying to structure my blog than about trying to focus my work. This…
Goodbye to all that – for now
I’ve been a bit distracted, trying to finish up a big project — I finally sent it off this morning — which is why I accidentally pushed “publish” on the post titled “My Year of Bookselling: Five Things I Did Right” when it was in a very rough draft stage. My apologies to those who…
Friday Focus: It’s pet transport, not travel
As a result of the helpful comments I received for the questions I posed on Sunday about pets too large to fly in airline cabins I learned the following: No one flies their pet via air cargo or in a baggage hold for a vacation. The need to transport a pet for a move is…
Friday Focus: Pet Air Travel, Steerage Edition
A few weeks ago, I discussed pets traveling in airline cabins, exploring in particular the effect of pet allergies on other passengers. This week, as I was booking my seat assignment for BlogPaws West, I started wondering about pets that travel as baggage. Frontier Airlines, my carrier to Denver, writes of its pet policy: Your…
Friday Focus: Of Pet Allergies and Airplanes
After posing the question on Sunday, How do pet allergies work? — geared towards determining how they affect travel — and checking into airplane policies, I thought I was going to have some definitive data to present. Instead, I was left with more questions and: — Awe at the commitment that several people with allergies…
Friday Focus: How Do Pet Allergies Affect Travelers?
It’s easy to dismiss other people’s phobias and foibles. When a veterinary dentist in one of my exercise classes freaked out at the sight of a bug, I thought it was nuts that someone who works with animals on a regular basis should be comfortable with one species but not with others. Of course, a…
Friday Focus: Pet travel – the new frontier
I asked on Sunday for people’s pet pet-travel peeves, my own being excessive fees for dogs staying in hotel rooms. The comments I got in response divided into two categories: Those, like mine, that focused on the travel vendors’ (hotel, airlines) practices, and those that focused on being a responsible pet owning traveler. The latter…
Friday Focus: Pet Travel Peeves
Most of the people who read this blog have either traveled with their dogs or considered it. And those who travel often have definite opinions on what they do and don’t like about restaurant, hotel, and airline policies — to name just a few basic categories. So this week’s question is less academic and theoretical,…
Road Trip: San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter
Frankie and I are headed over today to DogJaunt.com, where we explore San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, which we recently visited. There are many reasons I wanted to write about this dog-friendly neighborhood of one of my favorite cities for one of my favorite blogs — as opposed to, say, for this one. I owe Dog…
Use Some (Car) Restraint: Small Dog Edition
I don’t generally use blackmail to get guest bloggers (0nly because I don’t generally have any leverage) but in the case of my car safety series I mentioned in public that I’d asked my two favorite pet travel bloggers to help me out. What else could they do but identify themselves by complying? Rod Burkert…